Terms and Conditions

Terms and conditions of use

1. Introduction

1.1These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

1.2By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

1.4Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy and cookies policy.

2. Copyright notice

2.1Copyright (c) 2018 The Handsfree Group Limited.

2.2Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a)we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b)all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

3. Licence to use website

3.1You may:

(a)view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b)download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

(c)print pages from our website;

(d)stream audio and video files from our website; and

(e)use our website services by means of a web browser,

subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

3.2Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

3.3You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.

3.4Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

3.5Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a)republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b)sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(c)show any material from our website in public;

(d)exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e)redistribute material from our website.

3.6Notwithstanding Section 4.5, you may redistribute my blogs in print and electronic form to any person, providing full attribution to my website is included and express written consent from The Handsfree Group Limited.

3.7We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

4. Acceptable use

4.1You must not:

(a)use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

(b)use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(d)conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

(e)access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

4.2You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

4.3You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

5. Registration and accounts

5.1To be eligible for an account on our website under this Section 6, you must be resident or situated in the United Kingdom.

5.2You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.

5.3You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.

5.4You must not use any other person’s account to access the website, unless you have that person’s express permission to do so.

6. User login details

6.1If you register for an account with our website, we will provide you with a user ID and password.

6.2Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 10; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

6.3You must keep your password confidential.

6.4You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

6.5You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

7. Cancellation and suspension of account

7.1We may:

(a)suspend your account;

(b)cancel your account; and/or

(c)edit your account details,

at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

7.2You may cancel your account on our website using your account control panel on the website.

8. Your content: licence

8.1In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

8.3You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

8.4You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

8.5You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

8.6You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.

8.7Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

9. Your content: rules

9.1You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

9.2Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

9.3Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

10. Limited warranties

(a)the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b)that the material on the website is up to date; or

(c)that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

10.2We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

10.3To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

11. Limitations and exclusions of liability

11.1Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a)limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b)limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d)exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

11.2The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a)are subject to Section 12.1; and

(b)govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

11.3To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

11.4We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

11.5We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

11.6We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

11.7We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

11.8You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

12. Breaches of these terms and conditions

12.1Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a)send you one or more formal warnings;

(b)temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(c)permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

(d)block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;

(e)contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;

(f)commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(g)suspend or delete your account on our website.

12.2Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking[ (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

13. Variation

13.1We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

13.2The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions

13.3If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.

14. Assignment

14.1You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

14.2You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

15. Severability

15.1If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

15.2If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

16. Third party rights

16.1A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

16.2The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

17. Entire agreement

17.1Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

18. Law and jurisdiction

18.1These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

18.2Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

19. Our details

19.1This website is owned and operated by The Handsfree Company.

19.2We are a limited company – Company Number 05519584 registered with Company House.